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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TIME, by ANNA MARY ADAMS First Line: When time shall leave this once strong Last Line: Of the deep, still pools of the westward way. | |||
When time shall leave this once strong body weak, Perhaps the disposition then to keep More hours in memory's world with friends of old Who walked our way -- whose vision too will hold Scenes that we love -- may fully compensate For lack of strength to travel in paths new; For there is much of beauty to review Within the life of one who lingers late. There dross is buried in the distant past While gold remains -- oft to prevent a fast When fevered workers through the busy day See not the meaning of their strain and stress; We shall find comfort in the quietness Of the deep, still pools of the westward way. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOMEDAY BOOK: MIRIAM FAY'S LETTER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD by ROBERT BROWNING LITANY by ROBERT GRANT (1785-1838) THE CANDLE INDOORS by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS TO THE REV. F.D. MAURICE by ALFRED TENNYSON EASTER 1916 by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 13. TO AUTHOR OF MEMOIRS OF HOUSE OF BRANDENBURGH by MARK AKENSIDE |
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